Iowa
Old Press
Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune
Muscatine, Muscatine co., Iowa
October 16, 1944
Pvt. Frank Koepping Is Listed As Missing
Pvt. Frank E. Koepping, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Koepping, 1219 Lincoln boulevard, has been missing in action in
France since Sept. 21, according to word received by the parents.
Official notification from the War Department came to Pvt.
Koepping’s wife, Mrs. Mary Koepping, of Long Beach, Calif.
Pvt. Koepping has been in service since Dec. 18, 1943, and
overseas since early in July. He has been employed at the
Oberhaus grocery before going to California in June, 1943. He
received his training at Camp Fannin, Tex.
Soldiers Home for Visit With Wilton Relatives
Wilton—Pvt. Kenneth E. Brenner of the U.S.
Infantry, Camp Wolters, Tex., is home on a 10-day delay furlough
for a visit with his family and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Brenner, on route to his new assignment at Ft. Meade, Md. Pvt.
Brenner entered the service in May, 1944.
Pfc. Wayne J. Ford, Camp Polk, La., is home on a 20-day furlough
for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ford, and other
relatives.
Harold A. Hain, S. K. 2/c, U.S.N. has returned to Norfolk, Va.,
after spending a 10-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Elwood Hain. S.K. Hain enlisted in the Navy in May, 1942.
Junction Woman Learns Brother Killed in Action
Columbus Junction—Mrs. Jarret Peters has received
word that he brother, Cpl. John Iso, 26, of Moline, Ill., was
killed in action in Germany, Sept. 16. He was in the First Army.
His wife, who is a teacher in Toulon, ll. received word from the
government that he had received several medals.
S/Sgt. Max B. Heither, husband of Mrs. Max Heither, of Columbus
Junction, who has completed 24 missions over Nazi-dominated
Europe, recently enjoyed a “recess” from aerial warfare
at an air service command rest home, a remodeled English manor
house where American airmen who provide aerial cover for the
advancing Allied armies in France may relax between missions.
After seven days, he went back to his combat station.
Burdette E. Brown, PO 1/c has been receiving treatments for
malarial fever the last six weeks at the Navy hospital at San
Diego, Calif. He wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Brown, of
Columbus Junction, that he is feeling much better and has been
transferred to a new Navy base on Commando training.
TO BE INSTRUCTOR.
Richard Stegall, S.M. 3/c, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G.
Stegall, 1005 Mill street, has completed a training course for
sound men at the Navy station at Key West, Fla. He will remain at
the base to serve as an instructor at the school. He has been in
service since June, 1944.
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Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune
Muscatine, Muscatine co., Iowa
October 25, 1944
With Those In Service - Fullertons Learn Son Is Well in
Nazi Prison Camp
Columbus Junction—Tech Sgt. Harry Fullerton,
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Annas of Columbus Junction, is in
excellent health and is getting along all right in a German
prison camp, where he is being held as prisoner, it was learned
Sunday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Fullerton, of
Washington, Ia. Mrs. Fullerton talked with a comrade of Sgt.
Fullerton, who recently returned to America on the liner
Gripsholm in exchange of prisoners.
Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton noticed in a Sunday paper that 78 men from
Iowa had been returned in the exchange and one of them was Sgt.
Howard F. Wood, of Grundy Center, Ia. They located him in
Willimette, Ill. He told them he left the prison camp July 26 and
Harry was feeling fine. He said conditions at the camp were good,
largely due to the work of the American prisoners.
Sgt. Wood was in the same bomber squadron as Sgt. Fullerton and
his plane was shot down in the same raid in August, 1943. They
were taken to the same camp, Stalag 17B Krems, Austria, northwest
of Vienna.
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